From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Madhou <madh2001@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shell outputs anything typed when the kernel thinks@100%
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:31:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080321213108.1bb491ef@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803212211.43833.madh2001@gmail.com>
> The time that the kernel takes for checking usernames is about one second on
> my laptop which is equipped with an intel centrino 1,7GHz.
The kernel doesn't do anything with usernames. Most likely your user
space login programs are configured with an intentional delay to stop
dictionary attacks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-21 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 21:11 shell outputs anything typed when the kernel thinks@100% Madhou
2008-03-21 21:31 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-03-21 21:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-03 23:13 ` Nick Andrew
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